10 Low-Maintenance Outdoor Plants for Your Home

Preparing your lawn for spring and summer takes work after the cold winter months. It can be challenging for people who don’t have a green thumb to find plants they can maintain in their yard. But planting and maintaining an outdoor garden is well worth the effort.

These 10 low-maintenance outdoor plants make it easy to enjoy nature year after year and add environmental and monetary value to your home.

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50 Plants and Their Sunlight Needs for Your Garden

Gardening season will be upon us soon and knowing what plants can survive in your specific climate is important. By knowing your weather patterns, you will understand how to invest in the right bulbs, seeds and flowers when designing your garden. There are so many flowering plants that make a yard look so beautiful. Each flower blooms in different seasons. If you are looking for flowers that bloom in spring and summer, then it is best to know specific sunlight requirements. It is also important to know how these flowers cope with different levels of sunlight. Also understanding how the sun rises and sets in your yard, will help you find the best flowers for your garden.

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Five Easy Plants for Difficult Areas

Easy PlantsBy Guest Blogger: Madoline Hatter 

We all have areas in our yards that are just hard to deal with. They may be wet or shady or in the burning sun but they have a tendency to kill off whatever we plant there. However there are some hardy plants that love these kinds of places. Here are some easy plants to grow in difficult areas:

1. Canna

This large flowering plant has leaves similar to a banana tree. The flowers come in a wide range of colors from yellow to orange and red. Standing straight and tall they can reach heights of over seven feet. These are very hardy flowers and can grow in all kinds of soil. From underwater to hot and dry they flourish. They also reproduce quickly by sending out shoots and will take over whatever area they are planted in. Full sun or shade they just keep blooming! Read More